The Steirische Harmonika Worldchampionship and the national Austrian Championships, organised by the Harmonikaverband Verband Österreich(HVÖ) took place in Ausservillgraten in Osttirol, a small village with only 760 inhabitants.

The entire little village took place and made all artists, no matter, whether small or big to real STARS. Many many audience gave huge applauses to all performers.

Local authorities participated every day and beautiful weather made the Whole event SPECIAL.

Steirisch aufg'spielt - Österreich

30th Mission Folk Music Festival - Canada

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July 21-23, 2017, Fraser River Heritage Park, Mission, BC

It's soon time to celebrate. The Mission Folk Music Festival is turning 30 years old, and the organizers are happy to welcome you along for the ride. This year, the Festival promises an exciting program true to the unique blend of global, national, and local music that you know and love with new traditions coming up.

Friday night is the traditional Community Night celebrating Mission's 125th Birthday and will once again be Pay-What-You-Can admission.

Saturday and Sunday will both feature full-day programming along with the art market, food vendors, and community booths. The Wee Folk Area for kids will also be back on Saturday. Tickets are on sale now. You can find prices and more information here.

16th Tango Festival - New Zealand

Three days and four nights of world-class workshops, shows and milongas, plus tango immersion courses before and after the festival..

Take part in a wonderful programme filled with international masters, performances, special guests, and a few surprises packed into every moment of the eight day programme.

The festival week starts with intensive courses run by our international masters, held in the heart of the city, within walking distance from the festival hotel, with milongas every night, and the cafe district of Wellington right outside your door.

If you want further information view: http://www.nztangofestival.co.nz

Xabi Aburruzaga Martxoak 17 St Patrick´s Day 2017

Fleadh Cheoil 2017 Advance Program Released - Ireland

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The advance program from the 2017 Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann Ennis in Ireland has been released.

The Fleadh Cheoil is a huge competition and festival of Irish music, song and dance, with approximately 10,000 competitors and performers, including sections involving large numbers of accordionists, melodeon, concertina and harmonica players, as well as many ceili bands, accordion and marching bands.

"For three decades this event has supported Oregon Food Bank while reaffirming and strengthening the threads that bind us as a community," says Artistic Director Peter Dammann. "This has become one of the nation's great community music festivals and it could only happen like this in Portland."

"We are truly humbled to mark 30 years of support from the blues community to feed the human spirit of 1 in 5 people facing hunger in our state," says Oregon Food Bank CEO Susannah Morgan. "Since 1988, this iconic festival has raised more than $10 million and 1,000 tons of food for hunger relief. This is an achievement we are extremely proud of — and an achievement that is unprecedented in the concert festival business."

Video: The very young Raphael Peter Maier was the first competitor to play in the Staatsmeisterschaft (State Championships) competition and won 1st place Vorstufe 1 category.

Vancouver Folk Musik Festival - Canada

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The Vancouver Folk Music Festival is a Canadian cultural institution – a unique community-based celebration with an internationally-renowned reputation for presenting the finest traditional and contemporary folk and roots music artists from around the world. Now in its 40th year, it continues to be one of the city’s most beloved, enjoyed, and respected events – named “Best Local Music Festival” by Georgia Straight readers for the fifth year in a row, and 2016 “Best Music Festival” by readers of the Westender. The Festival draws 38,000+ enthusiastic attendees annually to beautiful Jericho Beach Park, folks eager to experience the music and culture of more than 60 international, national, and local acts. Every year, two and even three generations of families join friends and fellow community members to share in the music, dance, food, children’s activities – and the magical ambience of the festival.

The Festival was founded in 1978 and held in Stanley Park. It relocated to Jericho Beach Park in its second year. Sponsored by the city the first two years, the festival came under the control of the newly established, non-profit Vancouver Folk Music Festival Society late in 1979. In its early years the festival established and ran its own record label and distribution company, Festival Records.

Over the years the Vancouver Folk Music Festival has played a key role in the development of artists and audiences on a regional, national and international level. The society continues to honour the same traditions with an emphasis on emerging and diverse artists.

Orquesta Sinfonica con Esteban Calderón - Buenos Aires/Argentina

Beltango - Sweden

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Video: BELTANGO am Festival OsterTango Basel 2017

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The Revelers @ Water Front Blues Festival- USA

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THE REVELERS, a Louisiana supergroup created by founding members of the Red Stick Ramblers and The Pine Leaf Boys—unquestionably the two groups at the vanguard of the Louisiana cultural renaissance—combines swamp-pop, Cajun, country, blues and zydeco into a powerful tonic of roots music that could only come from southwest Louisiana.

As individuals they are each in high demand, having performed and recorded with T-Bone Burnett, Natalie Merchant and Linda Ronstadt, to name a few. They all appeared on the 2011 season finale of Anthony Bourdain’s “No Reservations,” and they also were handpicked by David Simon, producer and creator of “The Wire” to be featured musicians for the third and fourth seasons of HBO’s “Tremé.”

The depth of this band developed from digging deep into the dancehall traditions of southwest Louisiana and emerging with an arsenal that blurs the lines between traditional and original, Cajun, country, zydeco, swamp-pop, and the blues. Equally at home on a festival main stage, a late night dance party, or a performing arts hall, THE REVELERS have taken their mission coast to coast in the U.S. and around the world from Ireland to Denmark, to their own Black Pot Festival in Lafayette, Louisiana.

Korrotzi @ Vancouver Folk Festival - Canada/Spain

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The Korrontzi folk band from the Basque Country in Northern Spain was formed back in 2004 by trikitixa (Basque diatonic accordion) player, Agus Barandiaran. He wanted to give Basque and Biscayan folk music and Basque ancestral and traditional sounds a more contemporary feel, while not straying too far from a musical heritage based on the trikitixa and other ancient instruments like the txalaparta (percussion) and alboka (woodwind).

To that end, the group incorporated varied contemporary and mainstream instruments such as the mandolin, bass guitar, electric contrabass and other percussion, and musical influences from around the globe, to create great Basque roots music with a global flair.

The band takes their name from an old trikitixa player who used to go from his farm on donkey to the Biscay town of Mungia’s main square and back every Sunday – bringing cheer to the villagers who gathered there to listen to his songs.

The group has shared that same joy in their culture, language, dance and music with folks all around the world to applause and great acclaim. Now, to us, Korrontzi brings the rich tapestry of colours and landscapes found in traditional Basque music & dance with a unique and forward-looking vision. Prepare to be enthralled!

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CD "Tangology" Paolo Russo & Ensemble MidtVest - Denmark

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Tangology is a collaboration between composer and bandoneonist Paolo Russo and the Danish Ensemble MidtVest. Description:Tangology is the story of an imaginary journey that has one very unusual protagonist, an instrument. The instrument is a bandonéon, a special Argentine accordion who is a Tango's supporting instrument. Or more precisely, the instrument is his soul. The spirit of the music moves on a peaceful path that stretches through dream and spirituality,Between the actual and the amazing, in a continuum of feelings and feelings. With a distant and nostalgic echo of the Argentine tango taken by Paolo Russo

Paolo Russo was born in Pescara, Italy, in 1969, educated pianist and has lived in Copenhagen since 1996. through the last 20 years he has been hyperactive in music with performances throughout Europe as well as Argentina, Brazil, Japan, Russia, USA, Cuba and many more. Russo started playing bandoneón in 2001 and felt that he had found a whole new way of expressing himselfand began using this instrument more and more often.

He has released 10 Solo albums and contributed in about 50 albums, including in cooperation with Stefano Bollani, Etta Cameron and Pablo Ziegler and others.

In addition, Russo works as a composer and soloist for String orchestras, symphony orchestras as well as movies, theater and television.